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I still wonder about the core of Microsoft products. XP uses NT (New
Technology) that early Microsoft engineers called Not There as compared
to the 9x source code. Chris Quirke, MVP talks about the problem of XP
not having a maintenance operating system to fall back upon when there
is trouble. At least 9x has DOS. I still find 98SE to be stable on my
dual-boot computer with 98SE and XP PRO. I feel a lot of early problems
for 98SE were that there were poorly written drivers for the hardware
devices on 98SE and that caused a lot of blue screens of death.
Fortunately, my system on either side does not seem to have too many
problems. I think Microsoft may have to start from the ground up to
develop a stable core operating system.
I agree with you Dan. Apple was able to do it with the Mac O/S. They
essentially dumped ALL their earlier code and built a new o/s running on
top of FreeBSD. Hence, Apple has both a much more secure o/s than Microsoft
and certainly one of the more innovative desktops. Linux on the other hand
has just been screaming forward with new innovations, incredible stability
and security and a desktop now that would suite any computer user. The next
big step for Linux, coming soon to a new kernel will be real time
operations, like we've seen in real time operating systems like QNX. The
development of Xen and the ability to so easily gain super computer
capabilities by simply clustering Linux boxes, means Linux is leading the
innovation curve. Microsoft is going to have to rethink its whole operating
system and rewrite it from scratch. Failure to do so will just be dumping
more code on already old code that is ladden with security and stability
problems. To compound matters for Microsoft, the new paradigm in computing
looks to be an evolving web services model, where applications are server
based and accessible by any browser. This model may well lower the o/s to a
very basic role - enough to get a browser working. What could be better
than simply having something like a Linux LiveCD boot up the o/s (with
total security as turning off the computer ends everything), launch a
browser and then the user is away and working with web services? I'm sure
Microsoft is starting to sweat big time over how sad their future looks.
Their other main cash cow besides their toy operating system is their
proprietary office suite, which is so easily replaced now by the free
OpenOffice based on open standards which governments and the business
community are beginning to demand more and more.
Any thinking and somewhat advanced computer user, imho, should seriously
start looking at alternatives rather than continuing down the deadend path
of Fista and proprietary Microsoft "operating systems".
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A Windows user finally clues in and sets up a dual boot system and loves
it!:
http://www.winxperts.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1377
The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613
The New and Improved Ballmer:
Is this a modern day equivalent of a Nazi youth rally?:
http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg
A 3D Linux Desktop (video) ...
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